President Santiago Peña and the President of Paraguay's Supreme Court of Justice, Alberto Martínez Simón, met at Mburuvicha Róga, the presidential residence, to address the operational crisis at the National Unified Registry (RUN). The institutional meeting focused primarily on finding solutions for the system's failures, which have faced widespread criticism for slow document issuance since its implementation in February.
The meeting was attended by the RUN's senior manager, Lourdes González, the Supreme Court's Director General of Information and Communications Technology, Rosaliz Chamorro, and the Director General of Planning and Development, Juan José Martínez. The authorities discussed the need to strengthen technological infrastructure and allocate greater budgetary resources to modernize the country's property and cadastral registry system.
The RUN publicly acknowledges it faces operational difficulties, including the daily physical transport of case files between offices, the geographical separation of registrars and cadastral verifiers, and the lack of a single electronic platform. These limitations require significant investments, which will be financed by funds provided for in Law No. 7,424/25, with projected revenue only expected by 2027.
While the government emphasizes its commitment to legal security, system users report a concerning scenario. The College of Notaries of Paraguay (CEP) has warned that technical deficiencies and constant changes in administrative criteria are affecting the security of real estate transactions. Notaries denounce the issuance of cadastral certificates with errors and correction deadlines that can triple.
The citizen movement Tetãgua Sapucái added criticism by stating that the RUN's implementation is causing "legal chaos," with cases of incorrect georeferencing creating graphical overlaps that did not exist in the original titles. Concerns have also reached Congress, where the Senate's Commission on Indigenous Peoples demanded the creation of a preventive alert channel to protect indigenous lands from illicit sales and double titling.